Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-08-28

oned,n and was unable to proceed. In
vain the teacher prompted him; the boys
senses failed him and he fell to the floor
in q swoon.
Berlioz had his first passion ut IL. he
saw the object of it again at the age of 81
and second time fell in love with her.
He wrote to her: 81 have loved you, still
love you, shall always love you. Oh,
madam, have but one aim left In the
world, that of obtaining your affections"
Goethe in his old age fell in love with q
booksellers daughter. When Rousseau,
then nearly 60 years of age, visited Eng.
land in ITO he fell in love with Lady
Cecile Hobart. He wrote her that he had
never had any true love except for the
products of his own fancy. and declared to
her that she was the embodiment of bis
ideal. He wrote:
II had no hope Of ever meeting her, had
given up the eager search for her, when
you appeared before me. It was folly, in.
fatuation, if you like, that made me sur.
render for moment to the magic Of your
sight; but I could not but say to myself
There she is; no other woman has ever in.
spired that thought in me-"
But ifpoets and Assists are the most pre-
cocious lovers, they are also the mos,
tickle and the most multiform. Byron
admitted that he had been in love fifty
times. Principal Sharp tells of Burns
that there was not q comely girl in Tarbol
ton on whom he did not compose q song,
and that he wrote one poem which includ'
ed them all.
Beethoven constantly had his love affairs,
One of his difficulties was that he was in
the habit of falling in love with women
above him in rank, and, as women are no,
given to marrying their social interiors, hs
| was refused. Goethe's peculiarities arr
we'll known. 1t is amusing to hear sage
Scotch professor like Professor Blackis
apologizing for Goethe's facility and say.
ing, "Let no one, therefore, take offencs
when l say that Goethe was always falling
in love, and consider this great virtue
in his character" Poets are also repre-
sented As the most ardent of lovers.
But Mr.. Fink tells US, among othei
things, how to win and how to cure love.
Absence is one Of the means of curing love.
Two thousand years ago Ovid advised his
readers who wished to cure themselves oil
an unlucky attachment to flee the capital,
to travel, to hunt or till the soil.
Love" said Coleridge, sis q local an.
guish. / am so miles away and not hall
so miserable" But other men have found
that absence increases love. La Rouche.
foucauld probably hit upon the truth when
he said ''that absence destroys weak pas.
sions, but increases strong ones, as the
wind extinguishes acandle, but blows up q
fire." If the love is all fancy and has Lit.
tie strength, it may be cured by personal
contact with the object. But the safer
plan, perhaps, is to keep out of the way.
Hence travel is good expedient. Bust
ness, perhaps is better one. Ovid said
''If you desire to end your love employ
yourselfand you will conquer, for love fieet
business"
Still another expedient is reflection upon
the unhappiness of married life. A mar
in search Of this view can find it every
where. Addison said that beauty soor
grows familiar to the lover, fades in hi.
eyes and pals upon the sense;" and Haz
lit, that Though familiarity may moi
breed contempt, it takes the edge off I'D
miration."
Goethe said: "With most marriages il
does not take long for things to take on {
very piteous look" But none of these mer
married happily. Goldsmith said: "Many
of the English marry in order to have ont
happy month in their lives" Aud Colley
Cibber: ooh, how many torments lie In the
small circlet of wedding ringp'
But, undoubtedly, the best way to ge,
rid OF one love is to have another. "All
love may be expelled by love, as poisons
are by other poisons," says Dryden. Heint
said: 1.-THE most effective antidote to wo.
men are women; true, this implies an at.
tempt to expel Satan with Beelzebub, and
in such case the medicine if often more
noxious than the malady. But il is ct any
rate change, and in disconsolate love
affair change in the inamorata is unques
tionably the best policy"
The author also favors us with histor.
ical review of the subject of kissing. II
seems that kissing is not, as many people
would suppose, a universal instinct of tn,
race. Steele said Of kissing: Mature wa!
its author and it began with the first court
ship" But the facts do not support thii
view.
Monkeys and even dogs sometimes kiss
but it is said not to be common among
savages. Monteiro said that in all tn,
long years he had been in Africa he "hat
never seen q negro put his arm around Q
woman's' waist or give or receive any
caress whatever that would seem to indi.
cate any loving regard on either side"
| In the historic review Of the subject tn,
author tells us that among the Romans, i
man kissed his betrothed, she gainet
thereby the half of his effects in the even
of his dying before the celebration of tn
marriage; if the lady herself died unde
the same circumstances her heirs or neares
of kin took the half due to her. A kis
was regarded very seriously by the ancien
Romans. A husband might not even kis
his wife in the presence of his daughters
Kissing in the middle ages was yer.
common. In England it appears to hav
been curtomary on visiting TO kiss tn
hosts wife and daughters. Up to com
paratively recent period kissing was al
most as prevalent as handshaking at pres
ent. In the sixteenth century It was Gus
tomary for ladies to be kissed by the part
ners who had danced with them. Tn
fashion of universal kissing in Englan,
appears to have gone out about the time o
the Restoration.
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